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July
2017

In This Issue

In The News

Upcoming Event

What SPARC Is
Doing

Empowering
Youth

Advancing
Research

From the Director's
Desk

Who We
Are

The Transitions RTC
promotes the full participation in socially
valued roles of this population so they can
engage fully in all aspects of
life.

The Learning & Working
RRTC, is a national effort that
aims to improve the supports for youth and young
adults, ages 14-30, with serious mental health
conditions to successfully complete their
schooling and training and move into rewarding
work lives.

SPARC
As a
Massachusetts
Department of Mental Health
Research Center of Excellence, SPARC aims to
improve the mental and behavioral health of all
citizens of Massachusetts and
beyond.

In The
News

Health care providers do not regularly
engage with men about mental health or
fatherhood, leading to the question, "What about dads?" Dr. Kate Biebel aims to change
this in her new study which will identify the
perspective of fathers and health care
stakeholders about potential strategies to
address paternal perinatal depression. Learn
more about this newly-awarded SPARC seed grant
here!

Upcoming
Events

Researchers
from Transitions RTC and SPARC will be
presenting at the Alternatives Conference
2017
in Boston! Stay tuned to see copies of their
presentations. We hope to see you
there!

Upcoming
Webinar:

Career Development Activities of
Young Adults Living with Serious Mental Health
Conditions

Stay tuned
for more details on this webinar, on Thursday,
September 15 at 12pm, featuring Kathryn Sabella,
Laura Golden and Emma
Pici-D'Ottavio.

What SPARC

Is
Doing

Colleen McKay was recently awarded a
new grant: Evaluating Brain Injury Clubhouses
and their effects on Neurobehavioral Functioning
and Participation. Learn more about how this
study will fill knowledge gaps here.

Empowering
Youth in
Transition

In
school...

Latest
Comeback
TV Episode - Outside the Box Accommodations in
College, Part 2

For
more episodes of Comeback TV, click here!

On
the job...

To
Disclose Or Not? - Do I Tell My Boss? Disclosing My
Mental Health Condition at Work

See
our other tipsheets on employment here.

In
the community...

The Deaf
ACCESS project led by SPARC
aims to
improve
Deaf people's trust and involvement in biomedical research.
Phase 1 is complete! Read about this initiative
here.

Advancing
Research on Vulnerable
Youth

Latino and Non-Latino Youth
Describe Jobs and Employment
Services

In honor of Minority Mental Health
Awareness month, we are revisiting the Young
Adult, Mental Health and Employment (YAES)
study. This study pays close attention to Latino
transition age youth and young adults, as they
are a group that is less likely to seek mental
health services and have unique perspectives on
effective employment services. To learn more
about this study and its findings, click here!

State-of-the-Science
Conference

The 2018 Youth & Young
Adult Mental Health State-of-the-Science
Conference will take place during
the 2018 Research & Policy
Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult
Behavioral Health in Tampa, Florida!

Click here to download the flyer
and get information about the call for
papers!

From the
Director's Desk

July
is Minority Mental Health Awareness month. At
Transitions RTC, we have been actively
advocating for those belonging to communities of
color or ethnic minorities who may face a lack
of mental health resources, language barriers,
and higher levels of stigma. By joining the
conversation on social media and offering a
variety of our resources in other languages,
we are committed to raising mental health
awareness and understanding among all. We want
to hear from you: If you are a member of a
minority group, share your thoughts with us via
email on how having a mental health
condition is seen or understood in your
community.

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Some
of the contents of this newsletter were
developed under a grant with funding from the National
Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and
Rehabilitation Research, and from the Center for Mental
Health Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, United States Department of
Health and Human Services (NIDILRR grant number
90RT5031).  NIDILRR is a Center within the
Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).  The contents of
this newsletter do not necessarily represent the
policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume
endorsement by the Federal
Government.

The Transitions RTC is part
of the Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research
Center, a Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health Research
Center of
Excellence.

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